The project strategies include working in partnership with Education Queensland and Foodbank Queensland to:

• Abide by the Smart Choices – Healthy Food and Drink Supply Strategy for Queensland’s Schools by providing healthy, nutritious food
• Provide a service free of cost to students and schools
• Provide a fun club enviroment where students are free to attend without feeling stigmatised
• Ensure every student regardless of culture, economic or family circumstances are not disadvantaged or curtailed by commencing the school day without a healthy nutritious breakfast
• Y-Care provides each school with a refrigerator/ freezer, a metal cabinet for the storage of dry food, a toaster, cutting boards etc.   This is to ensure schools are not disadvantaged due to the cost of these items
• Y-Care organises, trains and provides volunteers who deliver breakfast to students.

Objectives

It is estimated that approximately 13% of students attend school without breakfast.   Whilst we recognise that there are many areas in the state where the need for Breakfast Clubs are high, Y-Care has deliberately focused on Logan City because of the cooperative partnerships that have been developed  by Y-Care with the Logan City Council, local businesses, community groups, Education Queensland, donors and volunteers.

This project is aimed at supporting youth disadvantaged by family circumstances to achieve their potential at school and provide a quick and needed response to an identified community need for children and young people who attend school without breakfast.

Future Plans 

Mid 2010, the YMCA Breakfast Program will commence operation of its own warehouse, which will serve as a training venue for students to learn basic warehouse and forklift skills, provide much needed food storage for the breakfast program; as well as providing support for other small organisations and Churches that serve the community, through the provision of food items.